Dimitri Kiril Ilyin (1929-2013)
Born after his parents emigrated (1924) to San Francisco. He said that his
“roots are as deep as the San Andreas Fault.” He graduated from Lowell High
School, UC Berkeley and then Hastings College of Law.
During the Korean War (1950-1953) he served in the landing force. Returning
to the USA, he met his future wife Donna. They got married in Washington.
Then Dmitri served in Germany and retired with the rank of lieutenant
colonel.
He became a practicing attorney, had an office on Clement Street in San
Francisco. According to him, he mainly worked as an executor, sorting out the
inheritance cases of numerous old-timer men and women — emigrants.
He was a member of the Bohemian Club, although, according to him, he had
no artistic talent. Perhaps he owes his membership in this club to his uncle,
the artist
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Ilyin
, whose portraits adorn the halls of the
club.
He was an active member of the volunteer fire brigade. At his dacha in Jordan
Park he collected a collection of old fire trucks.
He was an excellent shooter and a member of the National Rifle Association.
He was an avid collector of antique rifles and muskets.
When the opportunity arose to go to Russia, he said, he did not feel much
desire to do so.
He spent his last years in a house in Ukiah.
KIRIL DIMITRI
MARINA DIMITRI
CHARLES ALEXANDER
DIMITRI (ALIK)
OLGA
ALEXANDROVNA
1894-1991
KIRILL
BORISOVICH
ILYIN
1896-1974
DIMITRI KIRIL
ILYIN
1929 - 2013
DONNA
JEANNE HEWITT
1926 - 2008
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